SUPERPOWER! Liverpool challenges students with low self esteem to express themselves through performing alternative empowering personas with the use of wearable technology, encouraging young children to break out of their comfort zones.
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The project brings together students aged 10-11 years old, some who are recognised as having low self-esteem to discuss about their relationship with the school and its surrounding. Inspired by superheroes and role models of today and in history, students were asked to design their superpower and create superpower suits using physical materials combined with wearable technology.
The project consists of a 4 days workshop designed to push the students out of their comfort zones both in terms of skill and behaviour. In the workshop, students learnt about wearable technology, designed and co-create their superpower by experimenting with the wearable devices. They also collectively choreographed and performed their superpower in front of other classes of students.
From FACT:
“The workshop has helped to grow the confidence of each pupil, some who are recognised as having a low self-esteem and were specially selected to join the programme. The link between body language and confidence seemed implicit in their explanations. This workshop has provided a diverse set of possibilities to explore identity, confidence and expression. It has proved relevant to each pupil, but worked across the dynamic of a complex group as a whole.”
Special thanks to:
Leamington Community Primary School and all the pupils who took part in this project
Teachers: Jennifer Evans and Lorna Waters
Staff from FACT: Adam Sadiq and Roz Dean
A project by Ling Tan in collaboration with FACT and Leamington Primary School. Funded by Liverpool Cultural Education Partnership Fund 2017-18.
